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Oil Processing Chain
Oil processing converts crude into fluid products for chemical production and factory chains.
WHERE & HOW TO FARM
Oil Processing Chain
A Nauvis refinery supplied by an oil field, with chemical plants for downstream processing.
Before you go
- Crude delivered by pipe or fluid wagon.
- A refinery and an available processing recipe.
- Pipes, water where needed, and routes for refinery products.
Farming steps
- Connect crude from the oil field to refinery input.
- Select an available recipe based on the products your factory needs.
- Pipe refinery outputs separately toward consumers or storage.
- Check for a product that is backing up or running short.
- Add chemical plants for cracking only where they address that imbalance.
- Connect the required water and route the resulting fluids to their intended consumers.
- Recheck the balance after changing recipes or adding consumers.
- Avoid adding cracking capacity without identifying the surplus it should relieve.
- Keep fluid routes distinct and easy to trace when diagnosing a stalled refinery.
Repeat, collect and use
Continuous while crude and output handling are available; change recipes or downstream conversion as demand shifts.
Common mistakes
- Allowing a refinery output to fill all available storage; make room or consume the product.
- Assuming recipes produce the same fluid mix; check the selected recipe.
- Adding cracking without its required water or target; connect inputs and use it to solve a real imbalance.
When to stop or switch
Stop adding refineries when crude input or product consumption is the bottleneck; improve that stage first.
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